Recently, The FreeBSD Foundation announced the addition of Cheryl R. Blain to the Board of Directors. We sat down with Cheryl to find out more about her background and what brought her to the Foundation. Take a look at what she has to say:Tell us a little about yourself, and how you got involved with FreeBSD?I was bit by the entrepreneur bug in 1999 when working for a non-profit. I’ve worked with high-tech, venture-backed, small-cap companies ever since. My typical engagement finds me streamlining operations and sales teams to prepare companies for their next step forward, which most often involves financing.

In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Kris Moore interview Patrick Wildt, a developer of Bitrig. They speak about their OpenBSD fork, its differences, and plans for the future. Click play below to tune in:

User kuantem wrote this tutorial on how to install OTRS Help Desk software onto FreeBSD.

After dealing with OTRS Help Desk on Ubuntu Server for a couple of years (which actually worked quite well for our small IT firm!), I’ve finally decided to migrate this great Help Desk platform over to FreeBSD, simply because I love it! I’m no FreeBSD master, but I’ve figured out just enough to get this working. So here we go…
~Alex

Step 1: Pre Installation Tasks

(Assuming you have a new FreeBSD 10.1 installation with ZFS. Which I’ve installed on MS Hyper-V Server 2012 R2.)

Edit /etc/rc.conf and verify the hostname of your FreeBSD/OTRS server as well as the static IP address. Which may look something like this:

In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Kris Moore interview Paul Schenkeveld, the chairman of the EuroBSDCon Foundation, regarding his experiences in running BSD conferences and how regular users can help with involvement. Press play below to tune in:

In this November issue of BSD Magazine, Tiago presents an article on how to use PPoE Concentrator Dual-Stack. Rob Somerville has articles on how to use GIMP, and the difference between geeks and nerds. In addition, Craig S. Wright shows us how to use 100+ UNIX commands, and Michael Ortega introduces Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner.

I’m writing to you today because I know you are passionate about FreeBSD. You care that it’s innovative, secure, stable, reliable, well engineered and documented, and loved.

For 14 years, the FreeBSD Foundation has been providing funding and support for the FreeBSD Project and community worldwide. We are fully funded by donations from people like you. That’s why I’m excited to tell you that we’ve kicked off our year-end fundraising campaign!

This has been an exciting time for the Foundation and FreeBSD community. As you may have heard, we kicked off this fundraiser with the largest donation we’ve ever received. Whether you are a developer, writer, advocate, organizer, user, or investor, this donation is a positive reflection on the work you are doing for FreeBSD…..

This article by LinuxBSDOS shows us how to configure full disk encryption in PC-BSD 10.1.

Full disk encryption is supported in the graphical installer of PC-BSD 10.1, which was released on November 16 and which I just reviewed just three days ago (see PC-BSD 10.1 review).

In this article, you’ll read how to install a default PC-BSD 10.1 system on a single hard drive with full disk encryption configured. The installation image I used is the same one I used for the review, which I transferred to a USB stick by using the dd command. You may download an installation image of PC-BSD 10.1 from here.

For this tutorial, the test computer is a recent build using a motherboard with UEFI firmware, and the target hard drive is a 500 GB unit. If you wish to follow along, boot into the installer, then click through the first few steps until you get to the step shown in Figure 1. Full disk encryption is not part of the configuration in a default installation of PC-BSD 10.1, so you’ll have to click on the Customize button.

“Coming up on the show this week, we’ve got an interview with Brendan Gregg of Netflix. He’s got a lot to say about performance tuning and benchmarks & even some pretty funny stories about how people have done them incorrectly.”

To view a summary of what Kris Moore and Alan Jude chat about or for other audio/video formats visit the BSD Now 65 page on Jupiter Broadcasting or click here for the youtube link.